Living in a state of Contentment Pt 2: 1 Tim 6:6-10

once again, we're part to, uh, living in the state

of contentment.

And this is part two.

The first part.

We talked about Waas living in the state of contentment

where the Bible reads and first timidity, Chapter six versus

six. Uh, it says, but godliness with contentment is great

game. And so being content me is to be satisfied

or to be content with what God has done and

what God is doing in your life.

So it says that in order when we're talking about

the state, we're talking about your your state of being.

And we're talking about how your mind, your will, your

intellect, all your emotions, really the soulful part of you

that make this season all of that needs to be

Christ Center, meaning crisis, the center of our decision making

crisis in the center of our consciousness.

He is the reasons he is the lone If he

is, he provides us with the intent.

He gives us the wheel and the desire to do

everything that is pleasing and acceptable into guy.

And so when we made guy uh oh Jesus Christ

center in our lives, we then now confine ourselves living

in the state of contentment.

And so we asked ourselves, What are the reasons why?

Why should we be content?

You know, why should we be content?

Uh, what were you satisfied with?

What God has done in our lives and for what

God is doing in eyes?

Well, God is doing in our lives.

His ultimate goal is to conform, you and I into

the image of our Lord and savior.

Jesus Christ.

So that's one of the reasons why Guy wants us

to be content.

He wants to mold us and shape us and make

us into that image.

In order to do so, he have to allow divine

difficulties to come into our life so that it can

grow us so that we can appreciate the goodness of

his grace and his mercy and that we would know

who he is as they interact with each and every

one of us in our life.

So one of the reasons why is that?

Uh, we are to understand that we don't possess own

anything. If we go to Verse seven.

It says that we brought nothing into this world.

So it is certain that we can carry nothing out

of it so and wanted to understand that we need

to know that we were born into this world.

We were born naked.

We came out of our mother's womb and we don't

own anything.

We didn't have a house.

We didn't have a carbon at money.

Uh, within the half close, we brought nothing into this

world. And so when we die as everyone else, that

that they can take nothing with them, they can not

take anything over to, uh, the other world or the

new life or whether it be heaven or hell.

Nothing from this world and dislike can come over to

the new World and that new life other than your

spirit and your soul.

So those are the only things that even that you

don't even own that because God created you and I

and his image and in his likeness.

And so everything belongs to God, including our spirit and

including our soul.

We should be satisfied with what we had, Um, one

of the things that we're not then and we need

to recognize that we should be satisfied with what we

had first eight says, and having food and Raymont let

us be there with content.

So what?

As long as we have food and we have calls,

we should be content with what God has already given

us. Because those are things.

They are essential.

Tow us, surviving and living on this earth.

Anything other than that, I mean, course shelter fans, bachelor.

But with food, we can be satisfied and know that

God is who he says he is.

And he's a reward of them that diligently seek it.

So we turned to the Book of Matthew, but to

the gospel.

I'm sorry of Matthew 1st 25 it is Chapter six,

Verse 25.

Therefore, I say unto you take no thought for your

life. You should eat a when you should drink.

Know what?

Your body, Uh, what you should put on.

There's not life more than meat and the body more

than raiment.

So here you have it.

We're not even to be worried about or concerned about

what we have to be satisfied, which you were drink

and the clothes that we had.

We may not have designer called, but as long as

we continue that we had clean clothes and decent clothes,

uh, and we should be satisfied with what God has

provided for us.

We fall into temptation if and when we desire and

we covered things or when we come covet things that

we're not supposed country.

Okay, Verse nine says.

But they will be rich.

Fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish

and hurtful lusts was drowned.

Man in destruction and perdition, for the love of money

is the root of all easel, which, while some coveted

after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves

through that with many start.

So we tend to fall into temptation when we desire

things well recovered the that we should not come it

we desired any being independent of what God has for

us. When we covered our friends, um, new house, a

new car well, we mastered the Bible tells us not

to cover our neighbor's wife.

Oh, you know, sometimes we desire things that belong to

other people.

And when we find ourselves doing that, we're putting yourself

in a situation where we're being drawn away from what

God really has sports.

You go to James.

Chapter Tube gives us a really good understanding as to

how best imitation comes apart, it says.

Let no man when he said he is tempted.

I am tempted.

A guy for God cannot be tempted with evil.

Neither tempted he any man.

But every man is tempted when he is drawn away

from his own lust and enticed, then when lust has

conceived incredible sin and when seeing when it's finished and

drinking for death.

So this is what happens when you and I begin

to cover or desire until us something that God has

prohibited us to have.

It now puts us in the situation where now we're

being tempted, whether we're going to go after it, and

that because the temptation comes when we're being drawn away

from something that we desire that God says we cannot

have. And we saw that in the garden of EQ.

When God said, out of all the trees, Adam, any

of you can really accept the tree of knowledge of

good and evil.

So God gave them the opportunity to eat a.

The many of thousands of trees that was in the

garden, hundreds, whatever it might have been.

But it was the one tree.

God said, No, you can't have that that tree, If

you eat of entry, you shall surely die.

And what does that mean?

You just You're not only a physical death, but a

spiritual death.

That means we're separated from God when we did still

paying him.

So that's how contention works.

Temptation is when God puts a prohibition on something and

he says, No, you can't have it For whatever reason,

God is sovereign and he has his reasons.

Why mainly is to protect you and I from ourselves.

And also God sees the ending from the beginning, so

he knows what the outcome could be.

God tells us not to do it.

It's for our good.

It's not because he just doesn't want us to have

a good thing.

You know, that's what the devil told evil guy.

I just don't want you to be like, you know

that's not the case.

God doesn't want you and I to be triggered or

to be controlled by my own fleshly desires and impulses.

But he wants you and I to be leading to

be controlled by the spirit of God there, which is

righteous, that which is honorable, that which is true, that

which is God.

So why we don't live in a state of continued?

That may be the question we want to ask us.

One of the reasons why is that we don't feel

that our needs are being met.

We just don't feel our needs are being met some

time. Sometimes we feel as though Well, okay, this is

just not enough.

But God meets Arnie.

That's what did enough.

But sometimes we look at it as though it's not

enough. Okay?

And if we go back to the gospel of Matthew,

Captain sinks, there is a 31 says Take note ball,

saying, when you show even what you should drink or

where with the hope she'll be close 1st 33.

But it says, but seek ye first, the kingdom of

God and his righteousness and all these things shall be

added unto you.

So God's will meet our needs.

But we need to seek him first, not only seek

the person but the intent.

Why we thinking it has to be righteous?

It has to be the right heart behind seeking him

if we're seeking him.

Just to obtain things I heard is not right.

And my heart is not cure.

But if we seek in him because we want to

know him is because we want to cultivate a relationship

with him because we believe in him and we trust

him. And we thank him and were gracious unto him.

And we give obeisance onto him and we Prezi and

honor him if we seek him because we want to

know him for ourselves.

And we want to establish and cultivate a relationship with

our Lord and savior.

And those are the righteous reasons why.

And God said when you seek me and my righteousness

all of the things that you have, neither she'll be

at an a T shall be keeping up to you.

Remember, He says his needs we look at it is

not enough.

But God being our needs in actuality, floor in it.

What other reasons why we don't We don't.

While we don't feel weird content, we don't, uh, have

what we want.

One of the reasons why we don't live in a

state of containment is we feel we don't have what

we want.

Ah, I have one car.

I have this Pierce, you know, wanting more.

I mean, we never feel we have what we want.

And the more we get, the more we want.

And the Bible says we go to James jumped before

in wreaths, starting with first one.

Almost start reverse too.

Reverse one system once coming wars and fightings among que

conde not hands, even among your lust that you wore

in your members you love and you have not and

kill and desire toe have and cannot obtain.

You're fighting your war yet you have not because that's

not yet asked and received that, um because you asked

them is that you may consuming upon your lust, all

Living in a state of Contentment Pt 2: 1 Tim 6:6-10

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